Berden M., Jerman I., Škarja M. (1997): A possible physical basis for the healing touch (biotherapy) evaluated by high voltage electrophotography. Acupunct Electrother Res, INT J(22): 127-146.
ABSTRACT:
We performed a series of experiments to examine the possibility that
a theoretically proposed and indirectly empirically confirmed form of electromagnetic
field emission from living beings appears to modify physical characteristics
of water. We pursued three types of experiments. In the first one, we tried
to examine whether and in what way water exposed to growing and dying spruce
seedlings through a quartz test tube (therefore with no chemical contact),
influences the germination of seeds and the growth of seedlings of the
same species. The second type focused on the issue of whether and in what
way distilled water, equally exposed to growing and dying spruce seedlings
as well as to different ontogenetic phases of mealworm beetle, can be modified
and this modification later on reproduced through a specially developed
method of electrophotography. The third type of experiments presented here
attempts to find out whether an emission from human hands can non-chemically
modify the physical characteristics of distilled water. Their statistical
analysis revealed the existence of two different groups of people: those
capable of imprinting some form of highly reproducible radiation into water
and those at most capable of imprinting only some sort of highly variable
radiation. In the future this line of research could provide a scientifically
based testing of the actual capabilities of the so-called biotherapists
to perform this kind of unconventional healing. The present experiments
also represent further indirect evidence for a form of electromagnetic
emission from living beings and that such emission alters water in an as
yet unknown way.